Leroy, Texas
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Axtell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 76654. It stands on Moose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elm Mott quadrangle. 354 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 495 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresLeroy grew from 335 to 354 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 335 | |
| 2010 | 337 | +2 (+1%) |
| 2020 | 354 | +17 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1892 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1920 USGS Waco quadrangle1:125000
- 1931 USGS Elm Mott quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Waco quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Elm Mott quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Waco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
113 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Leroy between 2003 and 2020, burning about 676 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 55 |
| Debris and open burning | 45 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | MUTUAL AID-LEROY-GRASS |
| 27 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CONTROL BURN-BODE RD. |
| 26 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GF170 |
| 25 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 13 |
| 18 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASSFIRE-MAZANEC LANE |
| 18 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | GRASS FIRE |
| 18 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | CENTRAL TX - 11 |
| 10 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Texas A & M Forest Service | LEROY PKWY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leroy in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leroy | $15,000 | A roof was blown off a mobile home. |
| March 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leroy | $15,000 | A shed was blown onto a car and was destroyed. |
| February 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Leroy | $8,000 | High winds tore most of the metal roof off a metal shop building on Gerald Lane in Elm Mott. Some items inside the shop were damaged. These strong winds occurred from nearby light rain helping to drag strong winds aloft to the ground. |
| November 2001 | Flash Flood | Leroy | $5,000 | A house was flooded in Leroy, and roads and bridges were flooded in the surrounding area. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Leroy | $4,000 | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Leroy | $1,000 | Trained spotter reported half dollar size hail in Leroy. Time estimated by radar. |
| May 2010 | Hail | Leroy | $1,000 | Baseball sized hail was reported between Leroy and Elm Mott on FM 308. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Leroy | - | Amateur radio reported quarter-sized hail in the city of Leroy, TX. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Leroy | - | A NWS Storm Survey determined an EF-0 tornado began approximately 3.75 miles east-northeast of Elm Mott. This tornado had a path length of approximately a third of a mile and an estimated width of 50 yards. Some tree damage occurred with this tornado and winds were estimated near 75 mph. |
| June 2010 | Flash Flood | Leroy | - | High water was reported over Farm-to-Market Road 308 near the town of Leroy. |
| June 2000 | Flash Flood | Leroy | - | A road was flooded in the city. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Leroy | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Leroy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q981698 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1361106. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.






